Author: Vere Gordon ChildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Dawn of European Civilization
Author: Vere Gordon ChildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Dawn of European Civilization, by V. Gordon Childe
Author: Vere Gordon ChildeThe Dawn of European Civilization
Author: Vere Gordon ChildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Dawn of European Civilization
Author: Vere Gordon ChildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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What is Marxism?
Author: Rob SewellPublisher: Wellred Books
ISBN: 1900007576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever-growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an increasingly attractive proposition to millions of workers and young people around the world. The old mole of revolution, to use Karl Marx’s own phrase, is burrowing deep into the foundations of society. And yet we are repeatedly told that Marxism is either irrelevant, or out-dated, or even dead. Yet, if that were true, why are so many books and articles churned out year-on-year attacking Marxism? Clearly the powers that be are rattled or indeed frightened by these “dead” ideas. So what is this set of ideas that frightens them so much? Marxism – or scientific socialism – is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels more than 150 years ago. In their totality, these ideas provide a fully worked-out theoretical basis for the struggle of the working class to attain a higher form of human society – socialism. This book is aimed specifically at newcomers to Marxism. A bestseller now in its second edition, it comprises introductory pieces on the three component parts of Marxist theory, corresponding broadly to philosophy, social history and economics: dialectical materialism, historical materialism and Marxist economics. Complementing these introductions are key extracts from some of the great works of Marxism written by its most outstanding figures – Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
The Brenner Debate
Author: Trevor Henry AstonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Brenner Debate discusses the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe through a variety of view points.
Varna Necropolis
Author: Ivan IvanovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copper age
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Dawn of Everything
Author: David GraeberPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia
Author: Miljana RadivojevićPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270438
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the evolution of early metallurgy in the Balkans. It demonstrates that far from being a rare and elite practice, the earliest metallurgy in the world was a common and communal craft activity.
Society and Knowledge
Author: V. G. ChildePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100051689X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Originally published in 1956, the well-known archaeologist here takes on the role of philosopher. The author argues that knowledge is a social phenomenon, and that our intellectual life is the product of social heritage: reality is the product of different opinions of various societies.